IM120 Artificial Life Art

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Martina Ivičič (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Tuesday 10:50–14:05 N21
Prerequisites
The course deals with topics in the scientific disciplines related to artificial life and broad artistic creation, which builds on this discipline. Approaching the area probing technology and ideological precedents that preceded the emergence of AL. Comparing traditional biology with the digital biology and comparing life in vivio and life in silico and using information aesthetics, which brings the idea of ​​a computer as a tool of creative assumptions we explore the possibilities of evolutionary simulations of biological phenomena in artificial environments.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students will be able to formulate their own critical view of the phenomena related to artificial life research, and AL art and determine its status and importance in the wider cultural and social context, and will have an overview about art from the 90´till today (The VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards)
Syllabus
  • 1.Introduction to the issues and context. Definitions, critics utopias 2.AL as science vs. Artificial Life Art. 3. Hardware-Software-wetware. (The robot simulation-software projects-bio-art in vivo). 4.Convergence of art, science and technology. --- 1.Historical precedents of technology 2.Historic artistic precedents: Formal analogies between art and nature. Effects of organicism and genocentrism. Effects of mechancism. Linking natural forms and systematization. The avant-garde. Kinetic art. 3.Atributes of ALA 4.Aesthetic categories of digital art accented in ALA --- 1.ALA in terms of the media: 2. Biological metaphors in the digital arts and the ALA: 3.Breeding 4.Cybernatures --- 1.Software applications and programs for simulation of life 2.Machine autonomy 3.Evolution as an artist. Morphology: generative processes The role of the artist in the generative process 4.Exhibitions, festivals
Literature
    required literature
  • WHITELAW, Mitchel (2004) Metacreation – Art and Artificial Life. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press,. 296 s. ISBN 978-0-262-04249-9
  • Art and electronic media. Edited by Edward A. Shanken. 1st pub. New York: Phaidon Press, 2009, 304 s. ISBN 9780714868585. info
  • REICHLE, Ingeborg. Art in the age of technoscience : genetic engineering, robotics, and artificial life in contemporary art. Edited by Robert Zwijnenberg, Translated by Gloria Custance. Wien: Springer, 2009, xxix, 422. ISBN 9783211781609. info
  • ASCOTT, Roy. Telematic embrace : visionary theories of art, technology, and consciousness. Edited by Edward A. Shanken. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, xii, 427. ISBN 0520218035. info
    recommended literature
  • WILSON, Stephen. Art + science now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2010, 208 stran. ISBN 9780500289952. info
  • PAUL, Christiane. Digital art. Rev. and expanded ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008, 256 s. ISBN 9780500203989. info
  • HELMREICH, Stefan. Silicon second nature : culturing artificial life in a digital world. Updated ed. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1998, xvi, 314. ISBN 9780520208001. info
  • DAWKINS, Richard. Sobecký gen. 1. vyd. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1998, 319 s. ISBN 8020407308. info
  • KELLY, Kevin. Out of control :the new biology of machines, social systems and the economic world. 2nd ed. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995, 521 s. ISBN 0-201-48340-8. info
Teaching methods
lectures, home reading+ text elaboration with following discussion , individual consultations, creating the project
Assessment methods
Termination conditions: During the semester students develop: 1) After each lecture students regularly upload text/elaboration based on the text that will be inserted into interactive materials after each lesson. Text form of consideration, criticism, analysis of topics that the student demonstrates an understanding of the issues (not just "paper"). Text should include: a) What is the main idea of the text b) consideration of what is for the student interesting or useful c) References on other texts, authors (searching the context). After each lesson students hand the text into IS. Students will discuss about their text atfollowing lesson. 2) Presentation (see study materials)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
Teacher's information
http://almostliving.wordpress.com/
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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